Orlando Pirates are aiming to return to winning ways in the CAF Champions League preliminary rounds at the Orlando Stadium, in Soweto on Friday evening.
Pirates will host Botswana league defending champions, Jwaneng Galaxy, in the second leg encounter. Bucs are trailing by a goal to nil, and will have to score twice without conceding, if they are to progress to the group stage of Africa’s elite inter-club competition.
. On Sunday they lost their third match in a row, this time to Stellenbosch FC in the second leg of the MTN-8. Pirates have been let down by poor finishing. They come up against a formidable team that reached the group stages two seasons ago after shocking Tanzanian giants Simba FC. The players are desperate to qualify for the group stage in order to measure themselves against the best teams on the African continent.
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